
%0 Journal Article
%A Della, EW 
%A Taylor, DK 
%T Importance of the Halogen in the Competition Between Metal Halogen Exchange and 1,3-Elimination of 1-Halobicyclo(1.1.1)pentane
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1991/06/01
%V 44
%N 6
%P 881-885
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9910881
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9910881 
%X 1-Iodobicyclo[1.1.1]pentane reacts cleanly with t-butyllithium by a metal-halogen exchange process to give 1-lithiobicyclo[1.1.1]pentane. Both 1-chlorobicyclo[1.1.1]pentane and the parent hydrocarbon bicyclo [1.1.1]pentane are found to be inert to t-butyllithium. 
